Which of the following is the most appropriate word to fill in the blank? A track suit is the ______ thing to wear at the weekends.

Step 1: Analyze Question 12. The sentence is "A track suit is the ________ thing to wear at the weekends." This sentence requires a superlative adjective to compare a tracksuit to all other possible things to wear. • A. Comfortable (positive degree) • B. most comfortable (superlative degree) • C. comfort (noun) • D. more comfortable (comparative degree) The correct superlative form is "most comfortable".

Step 2: Analyze Question 13. The sentence is "The mystery movie was clever and suspenseful. The audience could not guess ________ committed the murder until the surprise ending." We need a pronoun to introduce a noun clause that functions as the object of "guess". The pronoun refers to the person who committed the murder and acts as the subject of the verb "committed" within that clause. • A. whom (object pronoun) • B. who he (incorrect structure) • C. that who (incorrect structure) • D. who had (incorrect structure) "Who" is the correct subject pronoun for the clause "who committed the murder".

Step 3: Analyze Question 14. The sentence is "Victor's phone company has grown so much, next year he is going to start ________ to other countries in Europe." The context indicates the company is expanding its business internationally. • A. Selling (too general) • B. expanding (already implied by "grown so much") • C. exporting (specifically means sending goods or services to another country for sale) • D. manufacturing (making products, not necessarily sending them abroad) "Exporting" best describes the action of a phone company expanding its services to other countries.

Step 4: Analyze Question 15. The sentence is "Mr. Howard is as tense as a hound. He probably has a ________ of test papers to grade." The idiom "as tense as a hound" suggests he is stressed due to a large amount of work. We need a phrase that means a very large quantity. • A. Fair idea (irrelevant to quantity) • B. small pile (contradicts the idea of being tense from too much work) • C. little number (contradicts the idea of being tense from too much work) • D. vast mountain (an idiom meaning a very large quantity) "Vast mountain" is the appropriate idiom for a large number of papers.

Step 5: Analyze Question 16. The sentence is "All the girls were punished by the dorm matron for being ignorant. ________ asked the matron what crime they committed." "All the girls" implies a group of more than two. The sentence suggests that not a single girl asked the matron. • A. Neither (used for two items) • B. Either (used for one of two items) • C. Both (used for two items) • D. None (used for three or more items, or an unspecified number, meaning zero out of the group) "None" is the correct choice for a group of more than two.

Step 6: Analyze Question 17. The sentence is "King and Queen asked their father if they could go with him to the country side. ________ of them was taken because they had classes the next day." This sentence refers to two specific individuals: King and Queen. The outcome is that neither of them went. • A. Neither (used for two items, meaning not one and not the other) • B. Either (used for one of two items) • C. Both (used for two items, meaning both) • D. No (incorrect usage in this context) "Neither" is the correct choice when referring to two people and indicating that not one of them did something.

• Question 12: The correct option is B. A track suit is the most comfortable thing to wear at the weekends. $\boxed{B. most comfortable}$

• Question 13: The correct option is D. The audience could not guess who had committed the murder until the surprise ending. $\boxed{D. who had}$

• Question 14: The correct option is C. Next year he is going to start exporting to other countries in Europe. $\boxed{C. exporting}$

• Question 15: The correct option is D. He probably has a vast mountain of test papers to grade. $\boxed{D. vast mountain}$

• Question 16: The correct option is D. None asked the matron what crime they committed. $\boxed{D. None}$

• Question 17: The correct option is A. Neither of them was taken because they had classes the next day. $\boxed{A. Neither}$